He appears unable to tell the doctor who he is, or where he comes from, but has he really lost his memory? Modern, original fiction for learners of English. The man is playing a dangerous game, and really knows a lot more than he is prepared to say. A man is found on the street, and taken to hospital. When he leaves the hospital, he goes to the house of the nurse who looked after him, and events take a very sinister turn.

But Richardson plays a significant variation on Lafayette's novel, since here the heroine is single and the obstacles that turn potential love into tragedy are created by Lovelace himself. Clarissa, in turn, resembles the Princesse in her awareness that she "does not hate" her dangerous lover (a typical French euphemism for desire), in her refusal to compromise once she fully understands that danger, and in her sensitivity to the implications of small favors and gestures-a delicacy born of danger that some English readers interpreted as prudery. And as a letter writer she resembles another of Richardson's French prototypes, Mme de Sévigné. Pamela's epistolary «voice» went from servant-girl's pertness to homiletic gravity without ever achieving the tone of a real aristocrat, but Clarissa sounds like a grande dame; like Sévigné's, her letters breathe intimacy, wit, and stylishness, casual upper-class colloquialism and vivid sketches of character. She writes «freely» about her oppressive family, with a subtle sarcasm created from the restricted vocabulary of politeness ...

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